It's not about assuming , claiming or even usurping, Flip. To some of us, that might be the only semblance of the ephemeral identity recognition we will ever get on this earth.
First off, please excuse my occasional mis-spelled word. Like I said before, my trusty Gateway laptop literally went up in smoke a couple of weeks ago, I have a new Dell Inspiron on order and I expect it before month's end. Meanwhile, I'm using my lovely wife's computer and I find the keyboard less than desirable, I need her to get voice recognition software, That would cure my keyboard problem.
I sometimes wonder if, maybe how a person is raised from infancy has something to do with how a person inflates his or her ego on the Internet, I personally know a fellow who does a lot of posting (not on this site) that uses a very macho, in your face screen name and writes stinging posts but in real life is a downright twit and looks like a twit too. I wonder if it has to do with whether a baby is breast or bottle fed? I suspect the fellow I know was fed store bought formula.
To... spell? Of all verbs? Oh yeah, at the risk of spelling... er... selling... er... swelling .... er... ... ... spilling the story, they are reportedly conducive to spellbound oral sex.
And BTW, I seem to have been electronically elevated to "nitrous"status on this forum. Worry not. I'll try my utmost to remain non-inflammatory. And level- headed with you guys. Jamie